Carly Jacobs

Carly is the founding editor of Smaggle, which launched in 2007 back when blogging was weird.

Her writing has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Cosmopolitan, Cleo and Vogue magazines.

Hoop earrings are totally her thing and she once had a really awkward conversation with Guy Pearce in Paris.

In celebration, we’re heroing our 2015 Alumni, by giving you the opportunity to vote for your favourite.

Based on your votes, the overall winner will receive a business grant of $7500, and a donation of $2500 will also be made to their favourite charity.

Vote as many times as you like to support our terrific 2015 Alumni. Voting closes 6 November 2015, and the winner will be announced at the Voices Gala event on 28 November.

Describe your perfect day?

A sleep in with my man, eggs on toast for breakfast with a good coffee, a walk to the city, lunch at my favourite meatball joint, an afternoon run, cooking dinner for some friends, playing cards and drinking wine!

Tell us something you are proud of?

Silly Things For A Bus – it was a fundraiser I did in 2014 for a special needs school I used to work for. I’d do silly things and put them on YouTube in exchange for donations. I raised $6500 towards a new bus for the school. It was an epic effort but it totally paid off.

Tell us something we should all know about?

It was super fashionable in France in the late 1800s for women to have their nipples pierced, and it was even more fashionable for them to show it off with fancy low-cut dresses. So there you go. That’s kind of cool, isn’t it?

What’s your most treasured possession?

That’s a very interesting question. I have a coin necklace that my grandfather gave me that I’d be devastated if I lost. I also wouldn’t be thrilled if I lost my iPhone.

And a favourite quote?

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, “Oh crap! She’s up!”